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Today's characteristic that we'll be doing is one of the primary reasons why Allah

SWT revealed the book. And it has been compared with almost to the level of the importance

of Tau'id itself as we will see. And that is the characteristic of being just Adil

The characteristic of the believer is that the believer is fair, the believer practices

justice and equality. You know the verse that every Khatib around the globe

recites every single Jumwa. This is the verse that is universally

recited around the globe instituted by the Khalifa Umar ibn Abdul-Aziz

one thousand one hundred years ago. He started this verse and every Khatib

follows because it is a comprehensive verse. Allah commands you number one

with Adil, in the Allah Ya Amr al Adli, while Ehsani, wa ita'id al-Kurba

and Ehsani and giving to your relatives and the verse goes on. Allah

SWT says in the Quran, we are commanded to put the scales of justice

with equality. The word Arabic Christos by the way, I've said this many times,

it is an Arabic cognate which means it comes from another word in Latin. And the

Latin word is Eustis. From the Latin word Eustis, the ancient Arabs took Christos

and they made it an Arabic word, Christos. From the Latin word Eustis,

English justice. So when we say Arabic Christos, English justice,

it sounds the same because it's from the same root, the Latin root of Eustis.

So we can literally say that the Quran is commanding justice, with the word

justice, was in Ubil Qistos and Mustaqim. Allah says in the Quran,

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